EL access to Data Window entries

GOE44 · 02:47 PM

Hi,
I think it would have been convenient to access variables in Tradestation Data Window from EL.
Tradestation have access to them (as displayed in Data Window) and some of these variables are available from Tradestation like High, Low, Open Close and so on.
But other plotted variables from Indicators and ShowMe's.. are apparently (to me!) not so easily available. Can anyone please tell me how this can be achieved, or is it just not possible?
I really will appreciate your response.
In advance, Thanks.

theYATZY

From what ive managed to collect this is not possible. I myself started a thread entitled Accesing other indicator values.
But after asking around i simply got the reply that you copy and paste codes inbetween to give functionality to different indicators. What you can do is to extract the info to an CSV file and use that file as input into your new indicator.

selnomeria

i wanted to do the same.
answer from TS was same- we cant access DATA WINDOW object.

I managed to write the data window to file on every new bar... then in another indi, i read the files.

gdsrev

How were you able to write the contents of the data window to a file at the creation of a new bar? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

SMCJB

FileAppend

https://uploads.tradestation.com/uploads/EasyLanguage-Functions-and-Reserved-Words-Reference.pdf
PDF Page 649 / Document Page 621.

gdsrev

Thanks. I found that but I am trying to figure out how to get the data from the data window to the file, specifically the data that is coming from other indicators.

SMCJB

Need to put the indicators into the Strategy first, but then

Fileappend(txtfile, NumToStr(Date,0) + "," + NumToStr(rsi(close, 10) ,2) + "," + NumToStr(Your Indicator, 0)+ Newline);

gdsrev

Thanks for all of the timely responses! To clarify, the data I need from the data window comes from third party indicators so I am assuming I don't have access to that data as a variable in EL. If there is a way to access custom indicator data from the data window in EL that is really what I need. I would prefer to reference it in code, but was drawing conclusions form this thread that that is not possible so a possible solution is to write the data window data to disk and then read the file and reference it that way. Any help to this end would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

ABCTG

gdsrev,

as far as I am aware you can't access the data window with code. Your best bet might be to have the vendor customize a version of the indicator for your that outputs the values you need.
Alternatively you can use TS's build in data export option and manually export the bar and indicator data.

Regards,

ABCTG

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